Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually stoic John Harvard blushed scarlet over a "B.U."-lettered waistcoat as seven car-loads of Terrier students touched off kerosene poured in the symbol "BU" and stretching from the 50 yard line southward to the 35. Firemen and Yard police armed with guns arrived to find seared, black turf facing their hoses...
...striking tribute to the vitality and appeal of his ideology that, although he has no official standing and no claim to prominence other than as a member of the Fourth Estate, he is able to attract large and enthusiastic audiences wherever he speaks, and has become the symbol of all that is distasteful to Russophobes, isolationists, the Un-American Activities Committee, and the Old Guard of both parties...
...Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...
...whole body of Picasso's work amounts, in my opinion, to a vast series of brilliant paraphrases on the history of art. . . . In terms of the art of painting, in terms of the living, breathing symbol of man's tribute to the work of God, it is no more than a vast erection of bones in the graveyard of experience...
...Antonio's Fort Sam Houston. The man who took the salute, a lame, lanky, partially deaf General with a strained look about the eyes, was reviewing his last parade as an active officer. He was Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, veteran of 45 years of Army service, and the symbol of both U.S. unpreparedness and victory in the Pacific...